Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.